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EDMUND HERSEY, OF HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS. Letters new in. 62,840, dated March 12, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR CUTTING HEADS AND BOTTOMS 0F WOODEN BOXES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

be it known that I, EDMUND H'mtsev, of Hingham, in the county of Plymouth, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a-new and improved Machine for Cutting Wooden Heads and Bottoms for Boxes, and for other articles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled-in the'artto make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying draw.

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I This invention relates to 31. new and. improved machine for cutting the bottoms and heads of wooden boxes vand measures; and it consists of a cutter of'peculiar construction, nttsch'ed to a rising and falling frame, and.

used in connection'with a block, over which the cutter works, and on which the stock or wood from which the bottom or head is cut is placed, all being constructed and arranged as hereinafter fully-shown and described In the accompanying sheet of drawings -r Figure 1 is. a front view of iny invention. i k

Figure 2, a side sectional view of the same, taken in the line a: fig. 1..

Figures 3 and 4, end views of the cutters pertaining to the; same. 7

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A represents an upright framing, in which arising and falling frame, B, is-fitted, and nllowed to work "freely up and down between suitable guides, a. This frame- B maybe operated by acrank and pitman, or by other suitable'means. In'thelower cross-pieceb'cf the frameB a cutter,- G, is fitted, andit may be of circular or elliptical form in its transverse section, but, otvvhiehever forum, it should have its cutting edges composed of two gouge-shaped parts, 0 c, which may be formed cutting, filing, or'otherwise' notching the cutting end of the cutter at two opposite points-j or the body of the cutter may be composed of two longitudinal parts,

shown in fig. 2, said parts being secured together by the cross-piece Z) of the frame, in which cross-piece the body of the cutter is fitted, (see fig. 2,) and the lower end of each part grooved in gouge form. If the cutter is of circular form the body of;the'same is a cylinder, as shown in fig. 4; if of elliptical form, the body'of the cutter will be an elliptic in its transverse section, as shown in fig. 3. a v

The cutter, as the frame B'is' forced down, works over a block, D, attached to a horizontal cross-piece, d, in the frsuning A, said blockcorresponding in form to the interior of the cutter. 1 The wood from which the heads or bottoms are cut is placed on-the block D, and when the frame B is forced down the cutter passes through the wood and over the block, thelattercuusing-the heads or bottoms to be driven out through the upper end of the cutter. In consequence of having thecuttihg edge of the cutter formed of two gouge-shaped parts it is made to cut freely and smoothly, and with but a moderate application of power.

l-Iaving thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to Secure by Letters Patent Having the edge of the cutter 0 formed of two gouge-shaped parts, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described. I

' EDMUND HER-SEY.

Witnesses:

O.'W. S. Snrmoun, J. -'l. Sinuns. 

